Contains practical solutions to tackle common (and not-so-common) problems you might encounter in your day to day activities

Book Description

Teradata is an enterprise software company that develops and sells its eponymous relational database management system (RDBMS), which is considered to be a leading data warehousing solutions and provides data management solutions for analytics. This book will help you get all the practical information you need for the creation and implementation of your data warehousing solution using Teradata.

The book begins with recipes on quickly setting up a development environment so you can work with different types of data structuring and manipulation function. You will tackle all problems related to efficient querying, stored procedure searching, and navigation techniques. Additionally, you’ll master various administrative tasks such as user and security management, workload management, high availability, performance tuning, and monitoring.

This book is designed to take you through the best practices of performing the real daily tasks of a Teradata DBA, and will help you tackle any problem you might encounter in the process.

What you will learn

Understand Teradata's competitive advantage over other RDBMSs.

Use SQL to process data stored in Teradata tables.

Leverage Teradata’s available application utilities and parallelism to play with large datasets

Apply various performance tuning techniques to optimize the queries.

Acquire deeper knowledge and understanding of the Teradata Architecture.

Gain confidence in running a wide variety of Data analytics and develop applications for the Teradata environment

Who this book is for

This book is for Database administrator's and Teradata users who are looking for a practical, one-stop resource to solve all their problems while handling their Teradata solution. If you are looking to learn the basic as well as the advanced tasks involved in Teradata querying or administration, this book will be handy. Some knowledge of relational database concepts will be helpful to get the best out of this book.